PLANTS Profile for Yucca glauca (soapweed yucca)

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PLANTS Profile

Yucca glauca Nutt.
soapweed yucca

Symbol:

YUGL

Group:

Monocot

Family:

Agavaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Subshrub
Shrub
Forb/herb

Native Status:

L48		N
CAN		N

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Clarence A. Rechenthin. Courtesy of USDA NRCS Texas State Office. Usage Requirements.

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Yucca glauca Nutt.

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Distribution:
Yucca glauca Nutt.


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See U.S. county distributions (when available) by clicking on the map or the linked states below:
USA (AR, CO, IA, KS, MO, MT, ND, NE, NM, OK, SD, TX, WY), CAN (AB)

Related Taxa:
Yucca glauca Nutt.

View 10 genera in Agavaceae, 30 species in Yucca or click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles.

Yucca glauca var. glauca
soapweed yucca

Yucca glauca var. gurneyi
Gurney's yucca

Native

Introduced

Classification:
Yucca glauca Nutt.

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass	Liliidae
Order	Liliales
Family	Agavaceae – Century-plant family
Genus	Yucca L. – yucca
Species	Yucca glauca Nutt. – soapweed yucca

U.S. Weed Information:
Yucca glauca Nutt.

Great Plains yucca
Spanish bayonet
beargrass
small soapweed
soapweed yucca
yucca

This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below. This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.

NE&GP		Stubbendieck, J., G.Y. Friisoe, & M.R. Bolick. 1994. Weeds of Nebraska and the Great Plains. Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Lincoln, Nebraska. 589pp.
WSWS		Whitson, T.D. (ed.) et al. 1996. Weeds of the West. Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with Cooperative Extension Services, University of Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming. 630pp.

More Accounts and Images:
Yucca glauca Nutt.

View photographs from CalPhotos.

View species account from USDA Forest Service Fire Effects Information System (FEIS).

View species account and distribution map from Flora of North America (FNA).

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 43142.

View species account and photographs from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

View 1 propagation protocol from Native Plants Network.

Related Web Sites:
Yucca glauca Nutt.

NM-State Plants

Time Generated: 09/23/2008 10:55 AM MDT